Questions about the results of conversion using svn-import

Colin D Bennett colin at gibibit.com
Sun Mar 21 13:54:16 GMT 2010


On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:53:55 +0000
Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 17:28 +1100, Matt Doran wrote:
> > I'm also curious about what makes up these branches.  All the
> > revisions/data for the branches are stored in the shared repo, but
> > is there a way to discover/list the branches that exist within the
> > repo itself.  Or is the data stored in the branch directories
> > important in retrieving the appropriate data out of the repo?
> > Hmmmm... I don't know if I've explained that well .... put another
> > way ... if I delete a branch directory, is there anyway to recover
> > the branch from the data stored in the repository alone?
> The repository is what stores the actual revisions. A repository can
> be colocated with a branch or be higher up in the filesystem (a shared
> repository). bzr-svn creates shared repositories by default unless you
> specify --standalone. "bzr info" will tell you the location of the
> repository that's being used by a particular branch.
> 
> The branch is mainly just a pointer to a revision in the repository.

There is also the ‘bzr branches’ command from the bzrtools plugin,
which lists all the branches found under a given directory.

Regards,
Colin
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